business hotels

Lifestyle hotels seem to be finding an increasingly natural place in the La Défense business district. CitizenM was a forerunner, setting up in 2017 near the Grande Arche and La Défense Arena, and will soon be joined, in mid-June, by an Okko hotel. At the other end of the district, towards...

A few weeks ago, the Hilton Group inaugurated the Hilton Garden Inn Bengaluru Embassy Manyata Business Park, with a catalogue of 353 rooms. Far from marking the culmination of the hotel group's ambitions in Bangalore, this opening paved the way for a wider project, specifically targeting the business clientele, a segment of the hotel industry that is...

Business travellers to Central Asia will find a number of new places to stay as they wander around. Among them, a Novotel Living establishment has just opened its doors in Almaty. Its opening had been announced since the end of last year, with the opening of an ibis Almaty Jetisu in the former capital of...

JW Marriott is continuing to expand in the world's major cities. By 2025, the American group's premium brand has announced its intention to open a hotel in Tokyo, with 200 rooms and a MICE area of almost 1,000 m2. The hotel will be located in a new building complex, the result of the redevelopment of the former railway depot...

A few days after announcing the acquisition of Rydoo's Travel business, CDS Group is strengthening its core corporate hotel booking business by opening up to Amadeus Value Hotels content. The aggregator developed by Amadeus represents a range of more than 500,000 establishments around the world, which travel agencies will now be able to...

After Porto in May 2021, Lisbon will soon have a Yotel establishment. Known for its innovative hotels, combining small, high-tech rooms with designer communal areas, the brand initially developed in airport areas is continuing its urban expansion. After Geneva and London this year, Yotel will be setting up in the Portuguese capital in 2024, with a...

At the International Hotel Investment Forum (IHIF), the Radisson Group discussed its ambitious development objectives in the Europe-Middle East-Africa region and the Asia-Pacific zone. Buoyed by a year 2021 described as "the most successful in the company's history in terms of new hotel signings", the hotelier intends to keep up the momentum....

The results for the first quarter of 2022 presented by Accor confirm the relatively limited effect of the Omicron variant on the recovery in hotel activity seen since last summer. Like most players in the sector, the French group has seen a steady recovery in revenue per room (RevPAR) since the second quarter of 2021. And the damage caused...

The London borough of Stratford, which took pride of place during the 2012 Olympic Games, is seeing its hotel offer strengthened. Following the opening of an Adagio aparthotel in spring 2021, two Hyatt Group brands have set up in East London, within the Westfield Stratford City shopping complex. Two hotels under the same roof, but with different...

Launched at the end of 2020, the Radisson Individuals brand is continuing to grow thanks to the attraction of the support of a major hotel group for independent hotel owners. While its announced expansion in Russia, with around ten hotels in the pipeline, has been postponed to a later date, the brand recently opened its first hotel in Africa, in Accra, Ghana,...

Following its opening in Zurich in November 2021, Ruby Hotels has set up shop in Switzerland's other major business metropolis, Geneva. The German chain, which advocates lean luxury, is continuing its international expansion with an establishment on the left bank of the Rhône, in the heart of the...

Along with London, Paris is citizenM's favourite destination. These two major cities together account for almost a third of the thirty or so establishments offered worldwide by the pioneering lifestyle hotel brand. With 11 new hotels planned between now and 2023, the Dutch-based brand will be adding its own brand to its portfolio of...

In the bull's eye. Marriott International has just passed the 1,000 hotel mark in the Europe - Middle East - Africa (EMEA) region. The American group has chosen an emblematic destination, London, to celebrate this major milestone. Now open, the Westin London City, close to the River Thames and the financial heart of the capital...

With long-haul travel still at half-mast and business travel at a moderato tempo, the Pullman Paris Montparnasse would no doubt have been satisfied with a more favourable context for its return to business. However, the management of this 900-room hotel, which caters for international customers and corporate events, doesn't seem to be...

Hilton is no exception in the hotel world. Like Accor and Hyatt, the American group has made lifestyle hotels one of its main areas of development. This is a segment in which the hotelier can count on three brands, all labelled 'by Hilton': Canopy for the top end of the market, Tempo for the mid-range...

As part of the modernisation of Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, Viparis set out to extend the range of services it offers to Parisians and visitors to the park, and to create links with the city and its surrounding area, bringing life to the Porte de Versailles outside of trade and public events.

Although Japan is only tentatively reopening its borders, business travellers will be the first to benefit from the resumption of tourism to the Land of the Rising Sun. To mark the occasion, business travellers will find a new base in Kyoto with a Hyatt Place located in the city centre, at the south-west corner of the Imperial Palace of...

The Radisson Hotel Group is stepping up its growth in Africa with the announcement of five new hotel openings since the start of the year. Already well-established on the continent - its latest developments include the opening of a Radisson Red in Johannesburg, a triple inauguration in Madagascar and the appearance of the luxurious Radisson Collection in Bamako - the hotel group...

The worldwide top 10 presented by the MKG Group confirms the hierarchy presented by Voyages d'Affaires last March. Marriott remains by far the world's leading group, the American hotel company having recorded growth of +4% in 2021. This represents growth in line with that of previous years, of +3.1% in 2020...

The Japanese government continues to turn a deaf ear to calls from the country's business community. The community is calling for Japan to reopen completely, while the rest of Asia - with the notable exception of China - is once again welcoming international visitors. Japanese and foreign companies based in the country believe that...